Pick-handle



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES E. EMERSON, OF SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.

PICK-HANDLE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 23,358, dated March 29,1859; Ressued April 29, 1862, No. 1,304.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES E. EMERSON, of the city and county ofSacramento and State of California, have invented a new and ImprovedMode of Fastening Handles on Picks and other Instruments Without Eyes;and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the construction and operation of the same, referencebeing had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specilication,in which- Figure l is a perspective view; Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 aretransverse sections, as follows to wit:

Fig. 1 represents a solid pick made of cast steel, and fastened to awooden handle, having an iron heading with a level face and a pin on theend, and securely fastened to the handle by means of straps extendingfrom the heading; and with an iron stirrup eX- tending round the outsideof the pick and on the sides of the handle, being fastened there-to bymeans of a key and wedge.

Fig. 2, represents a handle made of wood in any usual form with aheading on the end, of solid iron, and having a perfectly level surfacewith a projecting pin on the center, represented in said figure by theletter g and straps extending on the sides of the wood represented insaid figure by the letters c e by means of which the heading is fastenedto the wood f with rivets or screws. Fig. 3, represents a solid caststeel pick, in which letter it is a punched or drilled hole to admit thepin g of Fig. 2, whereby the pick having shoulders on the back, isprevented from moving backward or forward.

` Fig. 4, represents an iron stirrup, made to cover and surround theoutside of the pick, and extend over the heading described in Fig. 2,and along the sides of the handle, being fastened thereto by means of akey, represented in Fig. 5, letter al with anges n n, and a wedgerepresented in Fig. 6, letter c, extending through the apertures in thestirrup represented in Fig. 4, by letters 2' and the aperture in thehandle represented in Fig. 2, by the letter 70.

The nature of my invention consists in providing the end of a handlewith a combined fastening complete in itself, which will secure a pickor other instrument thereon, without an eye in the instrument, andprevent the handle becoming loose by shrinking of the wood, and alsoprevent the weakening of the instrument by having an eye to contain ahandle.

I construct the pick or other instrument in any of the usual forms, butwithout an eye for the handle; and instead thereof, with shoulders onthe outside or back, and a small hole, or a swelling or other device, onthe under side, as represented in Fig. 8, at the letters a 7L so as tocorrespond with a pin or hollow or other device, on the end of thehandle as represented in Fig. Q, by the letter g. Also I construct thehandle in the usual form and of a convenient size to suit theinstrument, and on the end thereof, securely fasten with screws orrivets an iron heading, with a solid front or face having a pin in thecenter or a hollow or other device corresponding in shape with the pin,swelling, or other device on the under side of the pick or otherinstrument as represented in Fig. 3 let-ter L,' which heading asrepresented in Fig. 2, letter g being fitted exactly to the underside ofthe pick or other instrument, as represented in Fig. 3, letter it andsecurely fastened thereto by means of the stirrup as represented in Fig.4, letter b with the key represented in Fig. 5, letters d, n, n, and thewedge represented in Fig. 6 letter C7 passing through the apertures inthe stirrup letters i i Fig. 4, and the aperture in the handle asrepresented in Fig. 2, letter 7c, fastens the handle on the pick orother instrument, as represented in Fig. l, letters a, o, c, d, 4: e 7a,cc 77' That I claim as my invention and desire to secure by LettersPat-ent is the iron heading of a handle tted to the under side of a pickor other instrument by means of a pin and hole on corresponding planesurfaces or a swelling and hollow corresponding to each other, andsecurely fastened thereto by means of a st-irrup extending over the pickor other instrument, and secured to the handle by means of a key andwedge, which will by such combination form a durable and permanent modeof fastening handles on picks or other instruments without eyes therein.

The benefits of this improvement are, manufactured of better materialand at less that one hanldle Inly be utsed fort several in;J expensethan any other and will last longer. struments-t lat t e lns'rumen s areno liable to break at the eye nor become loose JAMES E EMERSON 5 by theexpansion, contraction or decay of Witnesses:

the Wood in the handle and they are more CHAS. HYMES, portable than anyother. They can also be I. B. MARSHALL.

[FIRST PRINTED 1911.]

